{"id":173316,"date":"2018-07-26T02:11:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=173316"},"modified":"2018-07-26T02:11:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:11:33","slug":"deped-review-k-12-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/26\/deped-review-k-12-program\/","title":{"rendered":"DepEd to review K-12 program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWe are going to have a thorough review of the curriculum of the Department of Education. After all, we have been there for two years already so we have made enough experience,\u201d DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones said in a Palace briefing. (Photo: DepEd Philippines\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— The Department of Education (DepEd) will conduct a \u201cthorough review\u201d of its K to 12 education program, two years after it was implemented in various schools nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to have a thorough review of the curriculum of the Department of Education. After all, we have been there for two years already so we have made enough experience,\u201d DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will review the curriculum from Kindergarten to Grade 12 because we have been getting feedback as well and we are welcoming feedback from the public about curriculum content,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Briones said DepEd did not elaborate what \u201cfeedback\u201d the agency has been receiving, but stressed the need to keep up with changing times, especially in the age of technological innovations.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo years have passed. We need to review it because right now, changes are occurring. Many things are happening in this world,\u201d Briones said.<\/p>\n

The education chief said she had observed, for instance, how the demand to teach students on \u201cspeaking beautiful English\u201d to be able to compete in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry was problematic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a demand before that we should teach our children more English so they could compete in the BPO, the call center. But call centers are now replaced with robots in other countries. So if we are preparing our children to speak beautiful English for call centers, then perhaps we will truly be left behind,\u201d Briones said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to teach our children to be the ones to make the robots. This is why we are teaching robotics in high schools. This is why we are sending teams, public school, high school kids to other countries and they are winning in robotics contests,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Briones said what\u2019s more important than memorization is for students to be taught how to analyze and solve problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we want our children to learn, which probably my generation did not learn, is not memory work, we teach them how to analyze, how to solve problems, how to respond to change and to accept change because by the time they graduate, whatever we have taught them, not all of them will be applicable. They will not be able to recognize the world they are going to enter,\u201d Briones said.<\/p>\n

\u201cChange is happening so fast but it is in dealing with the change that we want our children to gain more life skills,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The K to 12 Program covers 13 years of basic education from Kindergarten to Grade 3, Grades 4 to 6, Grades 7 to 10 (Junior High School), and Grades 11 and 12 (Senior High School).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Briones said her agency is also set to rationalize its budget.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy priority is our financial management system. We have to review and we have to reformulate our accounting, our disbursement, our accountability systems because of the hugeness of the department itself,\u201d Briones said.<\/p>\n

Under the proposed PHP 3.757 trillion national budget for 2019, the DepEd gets the highest cut at PHP 659.3 billion which will also include funding for free tuition in state universities and colleges (SUCs).\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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